Free Jazz & Fusion

Free Jazz came to the forefront of jazz and experienced its most concentrated development in the years:

• 1949-1960

• 1959-1970

• 1969-1980

• 1979-1990

Free Jazz compositions were primarily based on:

• predetermined chord progressions

• written arrangements

• bebop compositions

• sound

Free Jazz got its name from

• jazz concerts that were provided free of charge to the public

• the freed slaves who developed this style of jazz

• Free Jazz musicians' sensibility of not being restricted to following a chord progression, hence they were "free" to play whatever they wanted

• None of the above

For the most part, Free Jazz is

• tonal

• atonal

• not generally played by traditional jazz instruments

• mostly vocal

Atonal means

• having one tone

• having multiple tones

• having no tones

• Not based on a tonal system like most musics listened to in America

As far as jazz styles go, most people generally find Free Jazz to be

• easy to listen to

• difficult to listen to

• weird

• B and C

Most Free Jazz features

• written arrangements

• collective improvisation

• improvised solos one at a time

• bands with no rhythm sections

Modal Jazz tunes are songs

• That are based on just one or very few mods so the soloist can concentrate on improvise using just one most for a long time

• that are based on one chord or a chord progression containing very few chords that change slowly

• that are based on a chord progression containing many chords that change quickly

• A & B

The direct precursor of Free Jazz was

• Swing

• Modal Jazz

• Bebop

• Cool Jazz

The most important Modal Jazz recording of all time is Miles Davis'

• Birth of Cool

• Time Out

• The Shape of Jazz to Com

• Kind of Blue